If the Twins win and the White Sox lose, Minnesota wins the division and heads to Tampa Bay. In any other scenario -- both teams win, both teams lose, White Sox win/Twins lose -- the teams would remain a half-game apart and the White Sox would have to make up a September 13 rainout against Detroit. That game would be in Chicago at 1 PM on Monday. If, after that game, the White Sox are tied for first place with the Twins, they would play Minnesota in another tiebreaker, also in Chicago, on Tuesday. The ALDS against the Rays starts on Thursday.

If Milwaukee and New York remain tied, a one-game playoff would be played in New York on Monday. Both NLDS begin on Wednesday.

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JoS Contest Updates:

The Red Sox have 94 wins, with two games scheduled for today. The W-L contest tie-breaker is Manny Ramirez's OPS, based on his complete 2008 season. Right now, Manny has an 1.031 OPS (.927 with Boston, 1.232 with Los Angeles). When we weed out the sub-1.000 OPS entries, we are left with:

MBM OPSThe Pita 96-66 1.037Matt 96-66 1.014Paul Hadzewycz 96-66 1.012

SoSock 95-67 1.062Rob 95-67 1.038MikeT9485 95-67 1.013

Zenslinger 94-68 1.015Devine 94-68 1.001

It looks like it's between Zenslinger, Rob and The Pita. If Manny decides to hit four dongs or something, SoSock might enter the mix.

In the Yankee Elimination Day contest, we are looking at the first tiebreaker. The Yankees have 88 wins going into today's doubleheader. Our remaining contestants:

No big deal. There's only one other person and she came in at 9 and dealt with it too. They are a bit more free and easy about such things here than in NYC! Plus I don't think any work has come in yet today.

What's done is done, but had Friday been rained out and the Rays lose today it would have been a crazy tiebreaker scenario for the division with us still having 3 games to potentially make up before the playoffs could start.

Endy Chavez just saved the Mets' bacon! Hot line drive out to left from Jorge Cantu - it looked like Chavez wasn't gonna get there, but all of a sudden he reached up and made a lunging catch backward toward the wall in full stride.